A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. |
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. |
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word. |
Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as 'the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine'. |
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine |
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them. |